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February 25th, 2022: What did you learn this week?

Nick Taylor on February 25, 2022

It's that time of the week again. So wonderful devs, what did you learn this week? It could be programming tips, career advice etc. ![Image of t...
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Brandon Hills

onMouseEnter/Leave events. Creating variants with props and styled components. Creating animation utility components. Lots of JavaScript stuff that I can't seem to remember currently.

Brain is fried. First couple weeks of the javascript journey are tough.

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Nick Taylor

Since your brain is fried, here’s some fried chicken.

Dog from GoT with friend chicken

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pierce

Seems like I'm in my first couple of weeks right now 🤣

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Nick Taylor

Awesome!

Hackerman from Kung Fury putting on a Nintendo Power glove

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Gerard Klijs • Edited

I learned a bunch, creating vados and integrating it with Netlify to have my page about bass playing. Mostly how to use html templates in Rust, to generate html fast. Also some basic Rust things relearned since it's been a while using Rust.

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Nick Taylor

That's awesome! 🔥

Yes, that's awesome!

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Mauricio Panelo

I've been learning Typescript this week. Also I've been programming in Python for years now and I just found out that the "//" operator is floor division and not integer division.

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

A kangaroo playing an electric guitar

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Mukund Raghav Sharma (Moko)
  1. Almost 56% through a course on the Essentials of Garbage Collection and writing notes here.
  2. Learnt how to build the clr runtime, debug through gc.cpp's functions.
  3. Understood how to configure heap affinitization for the .NET GC via this post.
  4. Linux has no concept of CPU groups like how Windows does for > 64 cores.
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Nick Taylor

Nice!

Nice

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cubiclesocial

I learned that Gmail has a 102KB limitation for displaying the content of an email (minus attachments). Why 102KB instead of 100KB? Probably to allow for email headers.

I also released xcron this week:

GitHub logo cubiclesoft / xcron

xcron is the souped up, modernized cron/Task Scheduler for Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, and FreeBSD server and desktop operating systems. MIT or LGPL.

xcron/xcrontab

xcron is the souped up, modernized cron/Task Scheduler for Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, and FreeBSD server and desktop operating systems. MIT or LGPL.

Everything you have ever desired to have in cron/Task Scheduling/Job Scheduling system software. And then some.

xcron is the reference implementation of the Job Scheduler Feature/Attribute/Behavior Standard (JSFABS) and is 94.2% JSFABS-compliant.

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Features

  • Runs on Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, and FreeBSD server and desktop operating systems.
  • Sane job scheduling queues. No more runaway job schedules or data corruption due to job overlap that plagues cron-based systems.
  • Use JSON to define named job schedules and named notification targets in a mostly familiar crontab-like format.
  • Picks up and runs missed jobs. Also auto-delays running missed jobs near system boot.
  • Can run jobs at boot and also set a minimum system uptime per job schedule.
  • Supports randomized configurable delay per job schedule.
  • Can set the timezone and base weekday…

There was a LOT of learning that went into making it over the past year. Getting software to work with feature parity on all supported platforms is rather challenging. Getting feature parity on Windows is especially tough when stuff has to be done that literally no one else in the world has done before:

The crickets were sounding pretty hard on Google Search through a good chunk of xcron's development.

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Nick Taylor

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio as Gatsby doing a cheers

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aruna-x

I learned Apollo/GraphQL (for front end) and made a GitHub Topic Explorer using the GitHub API.

Also learned what I was doing wrong with Redux in a project. Hilarious. I needed to add a default reducer that returns state itself 😂

Learned more about writing semantic HTML. Already familiar, but pushing myself to write more screen reader friendly code! Yay accessibility!

Next: jest / unit testing 🤩

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Nick Taylor

Yeah!

A T-Rex saying Yeah!

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vallerydelexy

i have learned useState and useEffect .
i will learn React.createContext and useContext for next week

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Nick Taylor

Awesome!

Hackerman from Kung Fury putting on a Nintendo Power glove

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Jason

I learned something through AWS integration related sessions, also learned ML's random forest, recapped some basic statistic math in probability.

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Nick Taylor

Captain America saluting

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Raeshelle Rose

I've been learning (re-learning) JavaScript basics. I'm already familiar with conditionals, and variables so it's not going too bad!

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Nick Taylor

Pam from The Office saying Nice!

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Daniel Hansson

Learned to program a speech-to-text and make it listen to words.

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Md. Maruf Sarker

Understood some source code of Golang (web development).
Vuejs routing concept
Complete a markdown project
Learning tailwind CSS
Create subtitle for content etc

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Nick Taylor

Actress Anna Kendrick in a film saluting as her character

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Lucia Cerchie

Was waiting for this one! I learned about reducing complexity with early returns in node, and about managing race conditions in testing.

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Nick Taylor

Gym teacher from Glee saying amazing!

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Jonas Petri

This week I learned Tailwind CSS.
It's awesome!

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Nick Taylor

Lego astronaut saying awesome!

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Nick Taylor

BB-8 giving a thumbs up

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Luke Westby

I learned that running a Kafka cluster costs a lot of money